lina
Dictionary entries
- Entry →linum, lini:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
flax, linen cloth/thread; rope; fishing line; (hunter's/fisher's) net;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...siccat madidas in carcere pinnas, contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim: uos anguilla manet longae cognata colubrae aut ~glacie..."Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...moneo, nostra nive frange trientes: Pauperiore mero tingere lina potes. CIV Saccus nivarius. Attenuare nives norunt et lintea..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...piscoso modo vix educta profundo Inpedient lepores umida lina meos. — Dum loquor, ecce redit sporta piscator inani, Venator..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uasto carbasa ponto legesque nouas scribere uentis: nunc lina sinu tendere toto, nunc prolato pede transuersos captare notos..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...uerberat amnem alta petens, pelagoque alius trahit umida lina. tum ferri rigor atque argutae lammina serrae (nam primi..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...mediisque carina subdita navigiis spinae mutatur in usum, lina comae molles, antemnae bracchia fiunt, caerulus, ut fuerat, color..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...levi velox superabat retia saltu summaque transibat postarum lina plagarum: copula detrahitur canibus, quas illa sequentes effugit..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...devia lustra vagantes participes operum conpellat Hyantius ore: 'lina madent, comites, ferrumque cruore ferarum, fortunaeque dies habuit satis..."